Agnosticism – What Should I Teach My Future Children about God?

Noam Kaiser, Jewish means either religion or nation, as an atheist I’m a member of the latter. Noam is a Most Viewed Writer in Agnosticism.

“No one should be in a position to tell you what you should do. I recommend equipping your children with critical thought, self worth that is independent of what others think or say, and curiosity. They will take it from there.”

Vikram Shenoy Handriu, PhD researcher in Brain Computer Interface.

“Yes. If you don’t know about something, then there is no harm in admitting that you don’t know. There are some things which we know about and plenty of things which we don’t know about. When we teach something others about its existence, the proof of burden lies on us.  Children are inquisitive in nature and tend to ask questions which we may not be capable enough to answer. However, children are innocent and they would believe whatever their parents tell them. Therefore, it is very dangerous to teach them which we, ourselves are unsure of.

“What should I teach my future children about God?”  -While saying I don’t know about God, you could still guide your children about the moral values. Teach them to observe the behavior of atheists, theists and agnostics and ask them their opinion of which one sounds morally correct and also logical. Agnosticism, while being a diplomatic stand of neither believing in the existence nor denying the existence of God, does not stop anyone to find answers. Therefore, teaching your children to “how to find an answer?” would be better than telling them “what the answer is?”.

P.S : Believing in God’s existence is like a Fuzzy Logic – logic values ranging from 0 to 1 rather than binary (0 or 1).”

Rab Letham, Father and primary parent support of an adorable five year old girl.

“Personally, my wife and I are atheists. We have a five year old daughter who is going through religious education at the moment in school. We also have many different friends of different religions, so obviously the subject of “god” comes up. Last month she told us that she didn’t believe there was a god. We asked her why. What made her think that? This month after chatting with her friends, she told us she had changed her mind and now she DOES think god exists. Again, we asked her why she thought that and what changed her mind. You see, I don’t really care if my beliefs are different from my friends. I believe its our values that have to be aligned.

One of our most fundamental values is this: It’s not our job to tell our daughter what to think. It’s our job to teach her HOW to think.”